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Lake, N.D. – The city of Devils Lake dropped its appeal of a state effort to use eminent domain to take city-owned land to build a flood control structure on the Tolna Coulee. The city commission voted unanimously to reverse its decision to fight the state in court.
The coulee is a natural outlet to the Sheyenne River for Devils Lake flood waters should the lake continue to rise. The state and U-S Army Corps of Engineers say a water control structure is needed to prevent a catastrophic overflow, but city officials believe a structure would act like a dam and worsen flooding in the Devils Lake basin.
Mayor Dick Johnson says it’s time for the two sides to work together.